John 18:28-40
John’s gospel has the most complete account of Jesus before Pilate. In fact, after today’s 13 verses, there are another 16 verses in the next chapter dealing with Jesus and Pilate together. That will be Friday’s reading.
I mentioned a few day ago about Pilate telling the Jewish leaders three times that he could find no fault in Jesus. We hear the same sentence from Pilate again today: I find no guilt in Him. (v. 38b) This long interaction between Jesus and Pilate seems to agree with that difficulty facing Pilate. He kept up his discussion with Jesus so that he could find a reason to either release Jesus or condemn Him to death. In the end he never found a good reason – he just simply pronounced condemnation, just to satisfy the Jewish leaders.
See also: November 27 / John 18:28-40